Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 2 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 3 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 4 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 5 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 6 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 7 | One day he finds something in the bottom of his shower . |
| 8 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 9 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 10 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 11 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 12 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 13 | He sighed heavily , then taking back his heavily booted foot he kicked her in the chest , sending her skidding across the gravel . |
| 14 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |
| 15 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 16 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 17 | For answer he pushed her in the shoulder , and when she almost tipped over the bird cage at her feet his other hand came out and , steadying her , he laughed down into her face as he said , ‘ Sarky little bitch , are n't you ? |
| 18 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 19 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 20 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 21 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 22 | During their conversation he watched her in a worried way . |
| 23 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 24 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 25 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 26 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 27 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 28 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 29 | Choosing his words with particular deliberation he said : ‘ In terms of dedication and discipline he reminds me in every way of Wayne McCullough . |
| 30 | Choosing his words with particular deliberation he said : ‘ In terms of dedication and discipline he reminds me in every way of Wayne McCullough . |